S.Z. Balanda on pr-'3 (Pharaoh) and its Historical Association with the King of Egypt

. . . pr-^c3 always throughout its historical existence represented the area within which was the king's divine residence, the ^cḥ, the seat of the civil administration - the stp-s3 and all such institutions which constituted central government on earth. (S.Z. Balanda, Society and Government in Ancient Egypt to the End of the New Kingdom [2d ed.; Stanbal Publications, 2003], 137)